|width="300"|'''Umesh Kumar''' <br> Umesh earned his Ph.D in Biotechnology from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), affiliated with Pune University, India, under the supervision of Dr. Archana Pundle. Umesh has worked on the biological synthesis of metal/metal oxide nanoparticles and the measurement of their physical and biophysical properties. Currently he is studying the interaction of nanoparticles with cells.

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|width="300"|'''Hursh Sureka''' <br> Hursh is a 3rd year Chemical Engineering major who is studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers.<br>

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|width="300"|'''Joseph Kim''' <br> Joseph is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He is currently studying lysosomal transport.

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|width="300"|'''Patrick Chen''' <br> Patrick is a 3rd year Biochemistry major who is also studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers.<br>

|width="300"|'''Eddy Shin''' <br>Eddy is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He is currently studying the importance of membrane potential on the cellular binding of nanoparticles.<br>

|width="300"|'''Eddy Shin''' <br>Eddy is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He is currently studying the importance of membrane potential on the cellular binding of nanoparticles.<br>

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|width="300"|'''Molly Flanagan''' <br> Molly is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry. In addition to working as a technician in the Payne Lab, Molly is also a nursing student.<br>

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|width="300"|'''Emilie Warren''' <br>Emilie is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a Spanish minor. <br>

Post Docs

Saheli Sarkar Saheli earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and her M.S. from Drexel University. While at Case Western, Saheli worked in the group of Prof. Harihara Baskaran on cellular migration. Saheli is doing a joint post-doc with the Payne and Kemp labs. She is studying the intracellular transport of proteins necessary for redox signaling.

Steven Hira Steve earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Florida State University. During his Ph.D., Steve worked under Prof. Geoffrey F. Strouse on imaging biomaterials for cellular delivery and developing biosensing devices. Currently, he is working on the intracellular synthesis of conducting polymer nanowires.

Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay Debjyoti earned his Ph.D in Chemistry from Syracuse University with Prof. Yan-Yeung Luk. Debjyoti has worked on the fabrication of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of chiral polyol-terminated alkanethiols on gold. In the Payne Lab, Debjyoti is working on the bioconjugation of thiophene monomers for intracellular delivery and lysosomal transport.

Austin Cyphersmith Austin earned his Ph.D in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts Amherst with Prof. Mike Barnes studying the orientation edependence of chiroptical properties of single molecules. Currently he is building a two photon TIRF imaging set-up.

Graduate Students

Candace Fleischer Candace earned her M.S. and B.S. in Chemistry from Western Washington University. In the Payne Lab, she is studying nanoparticle-protein interactions.

Undergraduate Students

Hursh Sureka Hursh is a 3rd year Chemical Engineering major who is studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers.

Patrick Chen Patrick is a 3rd year Biochemistry major who is also studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers.

Lab Technicians

Eddy ShinEddy is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He is currently studying the importance of membrane potential on the cellular binding of nanoparticles.

Emilie WarrenEmilie is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a Spanish minor.

Past Students

Syeda Anum(Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University)
Syeda is currently a research assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Gerard Dooley(Spring 10 - Spring 12, Postdoc)
Ger has taken a position as a pharmaceutical consultant.

Nicole Fay(Spring 07 - Spring 08, GT undergraduate)
Nicole is a NSF Graduate Fellow in the Chemical Biology Graduate Program at the University of California, Berkeley in the lab of
Prof. Jay Groves.

Solaire Finkenstaedt-Quinn(Summer 09, REU from Macalester University)
Solaire is a Ph.D. student in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota in the lab of Prof. Christy Haynes.

Jenna Tomlinson(Summer 08, REU from Grand Valley State University)
Jenna is a Ph.D. student in the Program in Biomedical Science at the University of Michigan Medical School in the lab of Prof. Pat O'Brien.